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NewsVintage Tug Steams for Maintenance
Most people''s image of the bustling concrete and glass jungle that is East London''s Docklands business community is probably the iconic skyline. Pockets of the area''s rich maritime history are, however, still to be found.
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NewsTight Timetable for Newbuild Conversion
A& P Tyne Ltd, part of A& P Group, has recently completed the conversion of a newbuild Offshore Support Vessel into a pipe-laying vessel for Subsea 7. In line with the original schedule, the 130m vessel will shortly depart for Brazil to complete a contract laying flexible pipelines to a ...
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NewsFratelli Neri Get the First New Robert Allan Compact Tractors
In August 2007, the first two of a series of new high performance, compact 24m ship handling tractor tugs, named ''Fratelli Neri'' and ''Porto di Livorno'' were delivered to Fratelli Neri Spa of Livorno, Italy.
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NewsFirst Vessels for Svitzer's New Milford Haven Fleet Arrive
As the port of Milford Haven embraces a new commercial era with the imminent arrival of LNG, Svitzer UK are preparing for the massive increase in activity. In February Maritime Journal reported on the towage organisation''s plans to introduce one of the worlds most advanced tug fleets to serve operations ...
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NewsUS 'Line Haul' Specialists Develop Well Tried Designs
Thanks mainly to United States and Canadian manning regulations, tug and barge operators in North America continue to thrive and develop purpose built deep sea tugs suited to their own particular trade. An increasing number are turning to the push-tow Articulated Tug and Barge (ATB) principle but others, for a ...
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NewsUK Coastguard ETVs Show Their Versatility
In Britain the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has a well established fleet of four powerful Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) available to help protect the UK coastline from pollution and maritime emergencies.
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NewsHolyhead's Newbuild Goes Out to Launch
from the yard of Metaaldraaierij Sepers BV at Druemel in the Netherlands was complicated by the fact that there is no slipway at the facility.
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NewsGlobal Scope in Salvage Activity
Third quarter activities by Svitzer Salvage included responses to a number of vessel groundings, including the ''Explorer'', which ran aground on rocks near the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.The tug ''Svitzer Maillaig'' was mobilised to assist the casualty, which was successfully refloated last month and escorted to safety at Ayr.
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NewsSalvors Refloat Capsized Cargo Ship
Dutch salvage and towage company Multraship successfully refloated the 5,744gt general cargo ship Al Shaymaa this summer after the Egyptian flagged vessel capsized in the southern Netherlands port of Moerdijk while discharging a cargo of steel coils. The vessel was safely redelivered to its owner.
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Two Newbuilds Due for Rimorchiatori Riuniti
A new tug for Rimorchiatori Riuniti of Genoa in Italy to a design by Vancouver BC based naval architects Robert Allan Ltd is nearing completion at the Astilleros Armon yrad in Spain. A second nearly identical offshore support and escort tug will be built at the same yard.
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NewsIrish Sea Freight Capacity to Triple
Irish Sea freight only specialists Seatruck Ferries have taken over Celtic Link''s Dublin-Liverpool route. Capacity available on Seatruck''s fast growing Warrenpoint-Heysham route is about to increase substantially, with the addition of the large newbuilding ''Clipper Point''.
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NewsFastest Ever Diesel Powered Vehicle Ferry
The first of two Multi-Purpose Auto Express 65m high speed ferries built for the Sultanate of Oman was launched at the Austal Image Henderson shipbuilding facility in Australia last month. With a top speed in excess of 50 knots the vessels will be the fastest diesel powered vehicle ferries ever ...
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New Gas Detector Gets CO Too
Dutch marine equipment supplier Vetus its previous gas detector with the new model GD 1000, which in addition to flammable gases now also detects inert but deadly carbon monoxide.
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NewsFloat Switch Control in Marine Tanks
A new Mobrey magnetic float switch from Emerson Process Management is the first float switch to combine ATEX and marine approvals in one standard product.
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NewsMixing It In Marine Environments
At the 9th International Conference on Nearshore and Estuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes (INTERCOH) at Brest in France last month, researchers from HR Wallingford delivered results from broad ranging studies in estuary processes. Amongst these were the findings of HR Wallingford research on the behaviour of suspended sediments.
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Green Light for New Ferry Facilities
Work to develop facilities at Cairnryan for ferries across the Irish Sea is continuing, with Royal Haskoning taking a leading role in the project. Once complete, the development will reduce the crossing time for Stena Line''s ferries and create improved facilities for P& O''s operation.
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NewsNew Buoy Maintenance Facility at Harwich
Sheffield UK based Hodge Clemco has completed the installation of a new £ 600,000 turn-key preparation and finishing facility in a new buoy maintenance unit at Trinity House in Harwich, Essex.
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GLAs Award e-Loran Contract
The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) have awarded a fifteen year contract to VT Communications for the provision of an enhanced Loran (eLoran) radio navigation service to improve the safety of mariners in the UK and in Ireland.
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NewsNew Buoys Light Australian LNG Terminal
Tideland Signal, the UK based aids to navigation specialist has supplied buoys and solar powered lanterns to guide tankers into the berths serving the new LNG terminal on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in Western Australia.
